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Same Bed Different Dreams
Ed Park
Random House
November 2023
On Sale: November 7, 2023
544 pages
ISBN: 0812998979
EAN: 9780812998979
Kindle: B0BV6H3NMY
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Literature and Fiction
In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean
Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of
their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly
symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World
War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in
the tragic North-South split that remains today.
But what if the KPG still existed—now working toward
a unified Korea, secretly pulling levers to further its
aims? Same Bed Different Dreams weaves
together three distinct narrative voices with an archive of
mysterious images, and twists reality like a kaleidoscope.
Korean history, American pop culture, and our tech-fraught
lives come together in this extraordinary and unforgettable
novel.
Soon Sheen, a former writer now employed
by the tech behemoth GLOAT, comes into possession of an
unfinished book seemingly authored by the KPG. The
manuscript is a riveting revisionist history, connecting
famous names and obscure bit players to the KPG’s
grand project—everyone from Syngman Rhee and
architect-poet Yi Sang to Jack London and Marilyn
Monroe. M*A*S*H is in here, too, as are the
Moonies and a history of violence extending from the
assassination of President McKinley to the Reagan-era
downing of a passenger plane that puts the world on the
brink of war.
From the acclaimed author of
Personal Days, Same Bed Different Dreams is a
raucously funny feat of imagination and a thrilling meld of
history and fiction that pulls readers into another
dimension—one in which utopia is possible.
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